"By the way, master, I see that your car is a Dodge ten-wheel, and 5,000 pounds is not a problem, why is it only half a car?"

"Isn't this the way of the world?" The driver shook his head with a wry smile, "In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, Japanese planes bombed our factory and blew up 6 electrolyzers. Later, the special city government forced the construction to start, saying that it was the city's commercial control committee to ensure the people's livelihood and industry, to ensure that production started, and also sent an acting factory director, but the machine was insufficient, the funds were insufficient, and there was a shortage of coal, electricity, and skilled engineers. In the past few years, the work in this factory is also three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, saying that Chairman Wang's Republic of China government is still in Nanjing, in fact, like the son of the Japanese, where can he still take care of the national industry? Nowadays, the Japanese soda ash plant and electrification plant are getting bigger and bigger, and Jiangnan Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. in Pudong alone produces 15 tons of soda ash every day. We usually and the enamel factory and tannery next to it are 135 power limit, 246 start, now Nissan soda ash is half a ton, can only get by, mixed food, next to a road junction, the Japanese on the Robertson Road, the East Asia Linen Club has electricity all day, the director of the-eating factory appointed by the business will never care about the life and death of the factory, and wants to dismantle and sell the rest of the machine, he is so self-fattening. ”

"What are you afraid of, you have this driving skill, you can eat anywhere," Lin Xiuxuan complimented.

"That's what I said, but it's not necessarily now, I heard that the Japanese were going to attack the Soviet Union, and now they are forcibly collecting supplies on the beach, what machines, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, sooner or later this car will not be able to drive."

Binggen's unintentional words touched Lin Xiuxuan's mind.

"Isn't this gasoline good now?"

"It's not good, the business will be limited to 16 liters per month, and it is not enough for me to open this trip; There is also a shortage in the concession, only the Asia Oil Company has goods all year round, and the foreign ghost company does not give face to the government, and the fiat currency, central reserve coupons, and military bills are all not needed, and only US dollars, silver dollars, pounds, and old men's bills are accepted. ”

"So that's it?" Lin Xiuxuan thought about it, he had more than a dozen silver dollars copied from Shen Jinliang's family in his hand, but it was obviously far away. It seems that we have to find a way to get some unblocked hard currency.

During this period, Ma Qiang squatted on a pile of salt, and used the radio to make a simple communication with Cheng Dayang on No. 419.

Inside the cab, Lin Xiuxuan and the driver Binggen were still chatting about the facts.

"Our young owner has never entered the concession in his life, and I haven't been here for 4 years, I don't know what the situation is in this concession recently?"

"What else?" Binggen smiled bitterly, "I'll tell you the truth, I've also been listening to errands in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, earning some extra money, and in recent months, I have been able to pull out a lot of corpses every day." ”

As he spoke, he opened the glove box below, took out a thing with a red cross symbol from a mess of things, and shook it, Lin Xiuxuan's eyes were quick and he knew French, and he could see that it was a special pass.

"This is a special certificate approved by the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau for these vehicles that pull dead bodies, and they are exempted from inspection and released when entering the rental industry."

"How so? Didn't you say that it was too peaceful in Lend-Lease? ”

"Taiping bird. Not to mention those who die of starvation and illness on the road every day, last month the Agricultural Bank of Xiafei Road was mailed to see one*, and three died, and this month the Jiangsu Farmers Bank was shot with machine guns, and dozens of people died in the business hall; A lot of passers-by who had no lives and no surnames outside were also killed, and when the patrol of the International Chamber of Commerce arrived slowly, there was already a river of blood inside, and the body could only be identified in the newspaper, and if no one claimed it, it was hired by the Red Cross and pulled to the mass grave in Nanshi to be buried. ”

"It's another expulsion of fiat currency, isn't it?" Lin Xiuxuan pretended to ask for advice, of course he knew what was going on with the bombings of several major banks of the Nationalist Government that remained in the concession, of course, through information.

"Isn't this lice on a bald man's head, obvious? The special government has just opened the Central Reserve Bank on the Bund and implemented the Central Reserve Bank, and several banks in Chongqing in the concession are about to carry out a campaign to expel counterfeit currency. Chen Gongbo's knees are soft and his hands are not hard, but is that Li Shiqun easy to mess with? ”

"Don't you dare to manage the Ministry of Industry?"

"Recently, there have been gunfights on the road every day, and there have been many Chinese arrests and Indian arrests, and a few days ago they were killed by the French arrests, and the concession is also in danger, and Dong Kaiziwei, the general director of the Ministry of Industry, was almost assassinated at the beginning of the year, but the Japanese were just across the Suzhou Creek, and they came in with their legs."

Lin Xiuxuan turned his head and looked out the window. Under the rising sun, a biplane full of bullet holes was stuck diagonally in the wilderness, it looked like a Hawker III fighter, the tattered skin swaying gently in the wind, and the marks of the blue sky and white sun on it had been dusty for a long time, dim and almost indistinguishable. He thought that what was waiting for him in the concession did not know what storms and waves were.

Half an hour later, the truck drove to the railroad crossing, but unfortunately the railings had been lowered, and many carts and wheelbarrows had been stopped at the intersection, and there were guards in green uniforms, waving small green flags on the side of the road, and it seemed that a train was about to pass. Lin Xiuxuan and the boatswain just got out of the car to move their muscles.

Ma Qiang was still sitting behind the truck and looking from a distance, and he could see a black smoke slowly approaching, and the train was still about 7 or 8 kilometers away, and the speed was so slow that it was really anxious.

Lin Xiuxuan got out of the car and wandered around, there were many stalls on both sides of the crossing, most of them sold melons and vegetables from nearby villages, and some sold fish and shrimp in the wild river, he didn't have the heart to look at these, mainly to eavesdrop on the people next to him, out of professional habits, he paid far more attention to intelligence collection than Lu Dacheng and Ma Qiang, and unconsciously eavesdropping almost became a hobby.

At the crossing, the workers on duty are chatting with acquaintances by leaning on the black and white railings.

"Fourth, why did you stop the intersection so early today, isn't it not yet at the point? How much will it delay me? ”

"Uncle, how much can you lose in your car of peaches? You know, it's a Japanese troop carrier, and as soon as they get out, the whole railroad has to wait, and I see, it's going to be five minutes in another minute. ”

"Where are these Japanese soldiers going to fight again?"

"The day before yesterday, I was at Fengjing Station, where a train of Japanese military vehicles carrying heavy loads was parked, and the whole vehicle was covered with Japanese cotton coats and cannonballs, and there was also a Japanese ironclad car hanging in front of it."

"It's still the sixth month of the lunar calendar, what do you want a coat for?"

"I didn't hear that this was going to fight the Soviet Union."

"I've heard that none of the three Soviets can beat a Japanese, and that the Japanese soldiers are all wearing a belt that the emperor has recited and worshipped, which is meant to be invulnerable; And the little Japanese tank, the cannon can't move, where have the Soviets seen that thing. ”

"It doesn't matter where he fights, as long as he doesn't harm us here."

As he spoke, besides, the train was near. Under the black smoke, a sunburst flag against the wind is particularly dazzling, behind the front of the car is a whole row of stuffy tank cars, all the doors of the carriages are open, you can see Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms standing or sitting, but the carriage is too dark to see too many details.

After the 20 troop carriages passed, there were long flatbed cars, and on each section stood several Japanese soldiers with bayonets and armbands, wearing yellow mud draped combat caps on their heads, which were really the same as in movies and TV series, of course, their demeanor was completely different from the devils played by those extras; The Devil Soldier's steel helmet hung behind him, and he carried a canvas bag and a water bottle crossbody. On each cart, there were also several guns covered with cloth, such as 75 mm mountain guns.

Those condescending Japanese soldiers stood with their chests folded, stood with their heads held high, and looked at the Chinese people below with cold eyes, but there was no deliberate fierce expression on their faces, and it could even be said that all of them were expressionless; However, behind this cold, rigid look, what is conveyed is a real sense of oppression.

Below, most of the Chinese people did not dare to look up at the Japanese army, and even if the Japanese army on these trains could not really hurt anyone, they would rather turn their heads and look around, pretending to look elsewhere, rather than looking directly at the enemy.

Lin Xiuxuan hid in the crowd, staring at the ghost soldiers flashing above, this was the first time he had seen the real enemy from such a close distance in this era, not through the optical zoom lens of the drone or periscope, but with his own eyes. He could feel the compelling momentum displayed by these Japanese soldiers without the slightest words or actions; It was a very restrained madness, a kind of arrogance that was not angry and self-evil.

In addition to a few soldiers standing straight at the front and back of each cart, there are also Japanese veterinarians in white coats who walk back and forth with a medical kit on their backs to check the military horses.

Halfway through the rumbling train, the Japanese troops who were indifferently overlooking the Chinese suddenly became a little restless, and they raised their heads one after another, showing uneasy and surprised looks, and even a military doctor who had been squatting and taking care of the horses stood up unconsciously from panic, and forgot to close his mouth.

As soon as Lin Xiuxuan turned around, he didn't know when Ma Qiang was already standing proudly on the cloth bags piled up behind the Dodge truck. He clasped his hands in front of his chest, condescending, like a slaughter of evil spirits, and overshadowed all the Japanese troops for a while.

Ma Qiang bowed his head slightly, and looked at every enemy who passed in front of him and dared to look at him, just like looking at a group of dead people.

As the train faded away, the four stunned Japanese soldiers standing on the last flatbed car even unconsciously walked to the rear of the car, held on to the guardrail and continued to open their mouths wide, looking this way, they couldn't believe that in the occupied area, in this invincible land, there were still people who dared to look at them like this, this should be a very rare experience.